Voices from the Great War (Repost)
Voices from the Great War By Peter Vansittart
1981 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 0224019155 | PDF | 32 MB
1981 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 0224019155 | PDF | 32 MB
This is a very personal book about what I still call the Great War. As a small boy in Southsea, I saw streets disfigured by ragged, unwanted ex-soldiers, medalled, but ill, blind, maimed, selling matches, bootlaces, notepaper, trundling barrel-organs or standing with a melancholy dog or monkey beside a decrepit hurdy-gurdy. Whether they were pleading or abusive, resigned or menacing, they appalled me. Their wretchedness suggested that, in overthrowing Germany, they had earned some monstrous penalty now being inexorably exacted.